M.A.D

_Mutually Assured Destruction Because of the testing of larger and larger
weapons made this a major issue in the 1960sThe more bombs created the more power you had as a country but because othe countries had bombs as well if you were to fire them they would retaliate and send them back which would end up destroying both countriesThis lead to Partial Test Ban
Treaty
resulted after Cuban Missile Crisis and fear of MAD Became major focus for Richard
Nixon as part of his détente policy

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Summary

Because of this fear it was less likely that a country would send a bomb because they would just end up signing their own death certificate